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Op-Ed
The Ongoing Battle to Defend Welfare Reform
…for upper-income families) that didn’t depend on whether parents worked or not. In other words, policymakers should provide unconditional cash aid to low-income families without a work requirement attached, just…
Blog
The Misleading Narrative About the ‘Hollowing Out’ of the Middle Class
…movement into better-than-middle-class communities. And how does this change the dynamic for policymakers, Scott, given that this narrative is so much different that they’re hearing on a daily basis? That’s…
Commentary
Opportunity Book: A New Tool for Connecting Policymakers with Innovative Ideas
Today the Center on Opportunity and Social Mobility at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) is releasing Opportunity Book, a new online tool that connects policymakers, journalists, and researchers with innovative…
Op-ED
Don’t Choose Your Own Adventure: Understanding Middle-Class Earnings Trends
…includes the disabled and sick. It includes homemakers. Moreover, it includes part-year and part-time workers. If the relative sizes of these groups change over time, that can affect earnings trends….
Op-Ed
Revise the Messenger
…without any credible evidence. He clearly hopes to find someone who will deliver not the accurate numbers necessary for businesses, policymakers, savers, investors, students, and parents to make informed decisions,…
Article
You Autor Know
…of the century made or led by US policymakers: the granting to China of permanent normal trade relations status in 2000 and the concurrent acceptance of China into the World…
Commentary
Is There Really Pent-Up Demand for Ten Times the Manufacturing Jobs We Have?
…they’d be better off working—period. It’s hardly a special endorsement of factory jobs. There’s a similar ambiguity for people who are neither working nor looking for work. Among homemakers, for…
Op-Ed
The Looming Debt Crisis, the Trump Tax Cuts, and Medicaid
…not CBO’s 154 percent. Given this unprecedented situation, you might expect federal policymakers to prioritize deficit reduction this year. But the recently passed House budget resolution would add around $3 trillion to the…
Op-Ed
Tax Policy Should Prioritize Shoring Up the Family
…have kids and rely on a sole breadwinner were thwarted by objections that a child allowance would also promote single-parent families in which no one worked. Policymakers seeking to use…
Op-Ed
Fixing Inflation, Right-Sizing the Federal Government
…(GDP)—a level not seen since 1958. When the 119th Congress and the second presidency of Donald Trump begin next month, policymakers will face a much more daunting fiscal crisis. Federal…
Op-Ed
It’s time to face up to our social poverty problem
…less than we used to, and we provide each other less social support. Rather than owning up to our glaring social poverty problem, policymakers have focused instead on relieving economic…
Book
Doing Right by Kids: Leveraging Social Capital and Innovation to Increase Opportunity
…in American K–12 Education,” MICHAEL Q. MCSHANE Chapter 3: “Educational Pathways to Economic Opportunity,” BETH AKERS AND PRESTON COOPER Chapter 4: “Reviving Marriage to Promote Upward Mobility,” BRAD WILCOX AND…